KTRK / ARMY - 1670

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Report from Mark Connelly - Billerica, MA 
Receiver: JRC NRD-525; Antenna: two 37-m wires, DL-2 phasing unit
Dates: 1996  -=-  Times: EST (UTC-5)

1670  KTRK a.k.a A-R-M-Y, Fort Meade, MD (NSA-land) - I heard this 
      first on the evening of 5 FEB with a strong signal equal to,
      or better than, adjacent WJDM (NJ) on 1660.  E-mail messages
      from Dave Yocis (via hard-core) and Al Merriman had tipped me 
      off to this.  On 6 FEB from 0005 to 0052, I taped a section of 
      the broadcast.  Two male announcers gave ID as "KTRK, K-Truck" 
      and a pre-recorded announcement by a woman gave the mailing 
      address as "ABS, 601 N. Fairfax St., Room 340, Alexandria, 
      VA 22314".  A telephone number of 1-301-677-1377 was also 
      given.  Hard rock from the '70s and early '80s was played: 
      this included AC/DC, Rush, and Deep Purple.  The following 
      evening (6 FEB, around 1900 EST), the station was identifying 
      as A-R-M-Y and a black DJ (I think) was doing a show of dance 
      and soul hits, mostly from the '80s.  I called their phone 
      number and the operator on duty said that the "KTRK" call 
      had to be dropped because a TV station in Arizona owned it.  
      (That shows the degree of non-communication among various 
      government agencies !  We live in the "age of information" 
      but you wouldn't know it from this.)  I told them that the 
      station had a great signal here 15 miles / 24 km outside 
      Boston.  At the time I called, they had already gotten 
      reports from all over the USA and Canada as well as one 
      report from Sweden.  [Connelly-MA]
  

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